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          <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-23T11:15:16&#43;03:00">Fri Sep 23, 2016</time> by <a href="#">Alan Orth</a> in 
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<p>There&rsquo;s a shop in one of Amman&rsquo;s downtown markets that sells traditional sweets. I&rsquo;m not sure who was more excited about this half kilo of <em>baklawa</em> — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.</p>


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